Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,271, Amos Gilbert, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Gilbert Amos Margaret
W. 16271
CONTENTS

3337.
New York.
V Amos Gilbert, H private.
Massachusetts Line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Oct. 1818 and sent to C. B. Baughton Esq. Phelps, New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 amount 37.60 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th Mar 1819. 48.00
$85.60
Sproul
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
2 Years 9 mos 1701
Continue
Ladies Ontario Co.

Notif n sent on or 15 th 1820 to Cyrus H. Cook. Lyons. P. M. 78 R

Albany 4989
Margaret Gilbert widow of Amos Gilbert
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 26. July 1832 of Erie Co. in the State of N. York who was a Mass Private in the company commanded by Captain Bailey of the regt. commanded by Col. Sprout in the Mass. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4. day of Feb. 1840 and sent to Humphrey Smith, Collins, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '39 280.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 1840. 40.00
$ 320.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book A. Vol. 2.
Clerk Page 79

Died July 16, 1840
AB

State of New York } Washington County } ss Town of White Creek }
Be it known that before Me A. S. Barnum a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Philinda Orcutt of said Town and County (to Me well known) and made oath in due form of law that she was at the wedding when Amos Gilbert was married to Margaret M c Chesney. That they were married at the house of Daniel Heath Jr then the Town of Cambridge in said County (now the Town of White Creek in the County aforesaid, by Edmund Wells Esq (Now deceased) in the Year 1786 as near as she can recollect
Philinda her Orcutt Mark
Sworn and subscribed before Me this 21 st day of May 1839 —
A. S. Barnum Justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Washington ss I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said county hereby certify that Harmon S Barnum Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly qualified according to law.
Given under my hand and official seal May 31 st 1839 Edward Dodd Clk

Anas Gilbert
Admitted Revolution
Chas. Cartwright
Adm?
Bailey's Co. - 2 d Mass. Regt. Col. Sprout.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page]

State of New York Ontario County - 30-
Amos Gilbert of Sodus in the County of Ontario Burns duly sworn deposes and says that as a private soldier collected in the Regular service of the United States in the war against Great Britain in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one the twenty third day of January in said year that upon the month of April following he joined the Regiment Commanded by Col Ebenezer Sprout being the Second Regiment in the Massachusetts line and belonged to the Company of Captain Adam Bailey in said Regiment and that he served in the same Regiment and Company until the twenty eighth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and was then Regularly discharged from the said service at West Point That he left the discharge shortly after the close of the war with Major Jones in Weston in the County of Franklin Massachusetts to endeavor to get some money Clothing which he never obtained neither has he since since leaving his discharge and being it cost the United States that he is fifty three years of age and laboring

under great bodily infirmity by Reason of a Rheumatic Complaint with which he has long been afflicted in consequence of which he is unable to labor and is wholly destitute of property saving a Cow and three Pigs (And that from these Circumstances he is under the necessity of applying to his Country for Relief and further says not subscribed and sworn before me this 14 th Day of April 1818 Amos Gilbert Ezra Sewell one of the Judges of the Court of Com Pleas Dutchess County
Dutchess County ss John Gault of said County being duly sworn say that he has known the above named Amos Gilbert for near thirty years and from Common Report always understood that he served in the Regular service of the United States in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain that he is a Neighbor to him and knows him to be in destitute Circumstances and unable to labor and further says not John Gault sworn before me this 14 th Day of April 1818 Ezra Sewell Judge of Com Pleas as above

To the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States
Ezra Sewell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ontario in the State of New York do Certify that I am personally acquainted with Amos Gilbert who has affidavit accompanying this Certificate and also with the said John Gault and believe that the facts set forth in the said affidavit are true and that the said Amos Gilbert is entitled to a pension from the United States agreeable to the late act of Congress
Given under my hand at Lyons in the County of Ontario this 14 th day of April 1818
Ezra Sewell

State of New York Ontario County } ss Clerks office } whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of Court of Common pleas in and for the county of
Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 28 th day of May A D 1818
Thos M c Nair CLK

Amos Gilbert
Amos Gilbert
3337
Week 1811
Cyrus Send to Stearns , Hancock Lyons

State of New-York, } ss. Ontario Cayuga County, }
ON this Nineteenth day of August 1820 personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county, Amos Gilbert aged 50 years, resident in the Town ofodus in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:
That he enlisted the 23 day of January 1781 as a private soldier for the term of three years and was assigned to General Patterson's Brigade in Col. Ebenezer Sproat's Regt the 2d Regt of the Pats in Adams Pailly Company that he was discharged the 28th day of October 1783. That the date of his original application for Pension was the 1st day of April 1818 and that his Pension certificate is numbered 3337
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed
And I do further solemnly swear that my occupation is that of a Millwright & Carpenter and that by reason of a lameness in the Back and failure of eye sight and other bodily infirmities I am thereby rendered unable to pursue my said occupation and that my family consists of my wife Margaret aged 44 years infirm (Daughter Mary aged 16 years Son Amos aged 18 years and Wm aged 13 years neither healthy Amos Gilbert Schedule)
  1 Cow $12. 3 Small hogs $8. $20.00 Amount Brot Up $26.75   1 Table $1.50. 6 Kitchen Chairs $4.50 1 Pan a gull Tea Kettle .50   1 Old Chest .50 1 Peter Leaper .50   1 three Sail brachia Kettle 1.50 3 Tea cups & Saucers .90   1 Pot & 1 Small dish Kettle $1.50 5 Knives & Forks $4.25   1 Shaker Broke $20.75 1 Pole & 2 Lin Bars $1.25   3 Old Axes $1.50   1 Old Clock 2.00   1 Pair of 1 Churn 3/75   Amos Gilbert $35.17 
Sworn to, and declared, on the 19th day of August 1820 before me Micah Brooks a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas Amos Gilbert
I, John Van Fosen clerk of the said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Thirty five dollars and seventeen cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court; on this Nineteenth day of August 1820
John Van Fosen Clerk of the Court for the County of Ontario

✓ 4285
Margaret Gilbert Act. July 7. 1838
Marrd 19 Oct. 1785 Husband d ied 26. July 1832

State of New-York Erie County
On this thirteenth day of January Eighteen Hundred and thirty six personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the Peace of said County Margaret Gilbert a resident of the town of Collinsville County of Erie Aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provis- ion made by the Act of Congress passed July seventh Eighteen Hundred and thirty eight entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. That she is the widow of Amos Gilbert who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under an Act of Congress passed the eighteenth of March Eighteen Hundred Eighteen. She further declares that she was married to the said Amos Gilbert on the 19th day of October in the year 1785 or 1786 the family records being burned she said mother distinctly remembers that her husband the said Amos Gilbert died on the 26th of July A.D. 1822.
Congress
That she was not married to him at the time of his death to his having the service of the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen Hundred and thirty four viz. at the time above stated
Margaret Gilbert Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Kirtland Smith
Justice of the Peace
I Do hereby certify that the above entitled Margaret Gilbert is entitled to a pension from the Court of Pensions on account of her services Kirtland Smith

State of New York } of Anna Fenton of Evans in said Erie County } County Henry D. Lyman Smith deposes that she has been acquainted with Margaret Gilbert ever since she was a small girl that she was married to Amos Gilbert at Cambridge in the county of Washington and State of New York about forty eight years ago or more and this Deponent further saith that she was not present at the time they were married. But living in the neighborhood at the time Believes from the reports at that time that they were legally married that they lived together for a great many years and raised a large family of children and this Deponent further saith that the said Margaret Gilbert has always sustained a good reputation and fair character as to truth and veracity. And further this Deponent saith not
Learn and Subscribed This 20th day of January 1839 Before me -
Anna X Fenton mark
Henry D. Lyman Smith Justice of the peace
Entered since before signed

State of New York } of Amos Fenton of Evans in said Erie County } County Henry D. Lyman Smith  that She has been acquainted with Margaret Gilbert ever since she was a little girl that she was married to Amos Gilbert at Cambridge in the county of Washington and State of New York about forty eight years ago or more and this Deponent further saith that she was not present at the time they were married. But living in the neighborhood at the time Believes from the reports at that time that they were legally married that lived together for a great many years and raised a large family of children and this Deponent further saith that the said Margaret Gilbert has always sustained a good reputation and fair character as to truth and veracity. And further this Deponent saith not
Sworn and Subscribed This 30th day of January 1839 Before me -
Amos Fenton mark
Humphrey Smith Justice of the Peace
STATE OF NEW-YORK, ERIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.
I, CYRUS K. ANDERSON, Clerk of the County of Erie, do hereby certify that Humphrey Smith Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed proof
was at the time of taking the
Same a Justice of the in and for said  Peace
county, duly elected and sworn and acting as such. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice
and verily believe the signature to be his genuine signature.
"Humphrey Smith"
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this 31 st day of January A. D. 1839.
C. K. Anderson Clerk By W. W. Padelford Dep. Clerk

January 25, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
M. M. Lewis The American Historical Society, Inc., 80-90 Eighth Avenue New York City
AMOS GILBERT W. 16871 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
You are furnished herein the record of Amos Gilbert as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 16871, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim.
Amos Gilbert enlisted January 23, 1781, place not stated, served as a private in Captain Adams Bailey's company, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's 2 nd Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged October 28, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, at which time he was fifty-three years of age and a resident of Sodus, Ontario County, New York, where he was still living in 1820.
He died July 26, 1832, in said Sodus, New York.
Amos Gilbert married Margaret McChesney October 19, 1785 or 1786, at Cambridge (which was later White Creek), Washington County, New York; they were married at the house of one Daniel Heath, Junior, no relationship to the family stated.
Soldier's widow, Margaret, was allowed pension on her application executed January 30, 1839, at which time she was aged seventy-three years and a resident of Collins, Erie County, New York. She died July 16, 1840.
In 1820 the soldier referred to the following children: Mary aged sixteen years, Amos aged fifteen years and William aged

thirteen years. In 1859, a son, John Gilbert aged forty-nine years, was living in Lyons, Wayne County, New York.
In 1859, one Abigail McChesney, aged seventy-three years, was a resident of Richland, Oswego County, New York, her relationship to soldier's wife, Margaret, not stated.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

1934 Jan. 25 Hirt to M.M. Lewis (See Btr in Clin. of Sammie Campbell R 1643) — MLE
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16271
Margaret Gilbert Widow of Amos Gilbert Peri Rev War
Act July 1 st 38
Index: Vol. a , Page 273
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V N. York 4,285 Margaret Gilbert let. to Hon. M. Fillmore 7. March '39 to Humphrey Smith 3. Sep. 1839 to same 15. Nov. 1839
Act. July 1838

June 6. My address of May & Gilbert to J. S. Church Room of Pension Washington D.C.  (MS) May 31

Hon. Sir
Enclosed you will receive some additional testimony in favor of Margaret Gilbert Stains for a pension. When disposed of please to communicate the result directed as before Collins Post Office One C. N.Y.
Collins May 29 th 1839 Most Respectfully yours
Humphrey Smith
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
1839 210 1789

House of Rep. July 10. 1889.
Sir.
Enclosed I have the honor to send you the application of Margaret Gilbert for a pension. Her agent is Humphrey Smith Esq. Collins, Erie co. N.Y.
Respectfully Yours. William Monroe
J. L. Edwards Pension Office.

Oct 22
July 7. 1838
perhaps
J. L. Edwards Esq
loss of pensions
Washington D.C.
Collins N.B.
Oct 16
free
J. L. Edwards Esq
Marshall, B. B.
Ames

Hon Sir
Your letter of the 3 rd of Sept r last has been received by me with Margaret Gilbert Declaration Returned therein together with a printed document containing the regulations on the subject in which I discovered that the Declaration of the applicant should be made before a Judge of a court of record which has been complied with and herewith enclosed are forwarded and also an affidavit made by Philinda Pruitt relative to the time of Marriage of Mrs Gilbert as further testimony on the case. I did not think it necessary for her to make any statement in her declaration relative to the services which her husband performed in the Army as he was a pensioner previous to his death for it is presumed that the Department are in possession of all the facts as to that part of the subject. none of the witnesses can testify to the day of the month that the marriage took place but all of them you will perceive concur in saying that it was in the month of October 1886 and Mrs Gilbert herself states that it was the 19 th day of that month but does not recollect whether it was 1885 or 86 This is the nearest testimony as to the date of the marriage that has as yet be found as the records have been destroyed by fire. please to communicate by letter as heretofore when it is disposed of. Collins. Oct. 14 th 1889
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Respectfully Yours Humphrey Smith

State of New York } ss. Oswego County. }
Abigail M c Chesney of Richland in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is in the seventy fourth year of her age, that in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six she was well acquainted with Margaret M c Chesney and Amos Gilbert and had been for several years previous, that the said Margaret and Amos were married to each other in October of said year 1786, by Esq. Wells a Justice of the Peace of Cambridge in the County of Washington N.Y. in which town they were married and that this deponent was present at their wedding and saw them married and further that she knew of said Margaret and Amos Gilbert living together as husband and wife for more than thirty years after and immediately succeeding the year 1786, and further saith not
Subscribed and sworn this 15 th day of May 1839, before me Hiram Hubbell, Judge of Oswego Co. Courts
Abigail M c Chesney
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abigail M c Chesney above described and that she is a person of truth & veracity. — Oswego Co. May 15, 1839.
Hiram Hubbell, Judge of Oswego County Courts.

State of New York, Clerks Office, } ss. Oswego County
I Daniel H. Marsh Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Hiram Hubbell whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate and before whom the within Affidavit appears to have been subscribed and sworn to was on the said 15 th day of May a Judge of the County Courts of said County duly Commissioned and sworn as such. And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signatures, "Hiram Hubbell", subscribed to the within Certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this 16 th day of May 1839. D. H. Marsh Clerk

State of New York Wayne County ss John Selfridge of the town of Galen in said County aged - Eighty one years being duly sworn doth depose & say that he was acquainted with Marynet McHenry when she was a girl and after she was married to Amos Gilbert and was acquainted with them both after they were married and to the best of his recollection they were married about the year seventeen hundred and Eighty five
Sworn & subscribed to before me } John Selfridge this fifth day of January 1889
the word after intendant before it was sworn to
Cornwall H Brown Justice of the Peace for & in the County of Wayne
I certify that I am acquainted with John Selfridge the person who subscribed his name to the above affidavit and have been for a number of years and that he is of a good moral character
Cornwall H Brown J.P.

1. State of New York
County of Wayne } ss: William Sisson of Lyons in said county being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Amos Gilbert late of Lyons in said county, deceased, for about twelve or thirteen years immediately preceding his decease, - that he was also during a part of the same time partially ac- quainted with Margaret Gilbert then his wife, and now his widow, and at present a resident of Collins in the county of Erie in the State aforesaid - that this depo- nent has been well acquainted with the said Marga- ret Gilbert since the decease of her said husband and that she sustains a fair character for truth & veracity and for integrity. And this deponent further saith that the said Amos Gilbert was a pensioner under the United States under the act of Con- gress of the 18th March 1818, as appeared by a Certificate which this deponent saw in his possession in his life time - that this deponent, as a justice of the peace, made out for him his affidavit and power of Attor- ney to draw his pension money under the said Certificate at several different times & took the acknowledgment of the same and knows that the monies were drawn under the same. This deponent further says that he recollects of the said Marga- ret Gilbert appearing in a Court in the said county of Wayne, in which this deponent was a Judge, to make the necessary proof to entitle her to the back pay due to her late husband at the time of his death and believes the original Pension Certificate of the said Amos Gilbert was produced there, and attached to the Clerk's Certificate and her power of Attorney and surrendered, or sent to the pension office or place where the money was drawn.
Subscribed and sworn this 21 st day of January 1839 before me D. Chapman Clerk of Pleas Wayne County. ss
Wm Sisson

State of New York, } County of Wayne, p 3 Jonathan Butler, of Sodus, in said County, being duly sworn, says, that he was well acquainted with Amos Gilbert, late of Sodus aforesaid, deceased, and with Margaret Gilbert, his widow, now of Collins, in the County of Erie, in said State, and has been so acquainted with them, respectively, for twenty three years, and upwards; that during that term of time, until the decease of the said Amos Gilbert, the said Amos and Margaret lived together as man and wife, in the County of Wayne aforesaid, or within the territory now embraced in said County of Wayne; that said Amos Gilbert died at the town of Sodus aforesaid, on the twenty sixth day of July, one thousand Eight hundred and thirtytwo, to the personal knowledge of this deponent, he having died at this deponent's dwelling house; that said Amos Gilbert was a Revolutionary pensioner, and drew his pension regularly under and in virtue of a certificate issued from the pension office of the United States; but under what particular act of Congress he drew such pension, this deponent does not now remember; and further this deponent says not.
Subscribed & sworn before me January 21. 1839. D. Chapman, Comr of Pleas Wayne County.
Jonathan Butler

State of New York, County of Wayne ss } John Gilbert, of Syrac, in said County, being duly sworn, says, that he is now fully nine years of age; that he is a son of Amos Gilbert, late of Ithaca in said County, deceased, and of Margaret Gilbert, widow of said Amos, now residing in Collins, in the County of Erie, in said State; that said Amos & Margaret lived together as man and wife, to the distinct recollec- tion of this deponent, as early as the first day of January 1794, and continued so to reside together until the death of said Amos, in July 1832; that, at this deponent has been always informed by said Amos & Margaret, and as he verily believes to be true, the said Amos & Margaret were duly Married in the year 1785, in the County of Washington, in said State of New York; and that this deponent has never heard the fact questioned by any person or persons: And this deponent further says, that he was present when the annexed affidavit of John Selfridge was taken, and that the name was made at his special instance & request, & that the name gibert , in said affidavit was intended for, and should have been spelled gilbert ; and further this deponent says
Not:
John Gilbert
Subscribed & sworn before me January 21. 1839. D. Chap- man. Clerk of Recd. of Wayne County }
State of New York, County of Wayne, Clerk's Office ss } I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office.

do hereby certify, that Daniel Chapman, before whom the preceding affidavits of William Dyer, Jonathan Butler and John Gilbert were taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds of said County, duly authorized by the laws of said
to sign
State to take the same; And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, & hereby believe his signatures to the Inats of said affidavits to be genuine: And I further certify, that Cornwall H. Brown, before whom the preceding affidavit of John Selfridge was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly authorized to administer oaths; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and hereby believe his signature to the Inat of said affidavit to be genuine. Witness my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, January 21. 1839.
Gullen Foster Clerk

4285
No 611.
Wheat. Margaret Gilbert N.Y.
7 July 58
Custom Office
Rev. Mr. Williams Mr. ... H. M. ... A. M.

Dec 10
Try It didn't ret. Mayb Gilbert
Nov 31 F.F. M.G.
Adams
Com 4 P. orous
Washington D.C.
of rec

Hon Sir
Your letter of the 15 th ult o was yesterday received by me which stated that you wished to have the original Declaration of Mrs Gilbert Returned to the pension office I have Enclosed the same and herewith forwarded it accordingly
Callins Nov 26 th 1889
I am Respectfully
L. Edwards Esq Com of pension
Your Most obedt
Humphrey Smith

Present
No. 4285
Manned by Oct. 1785
Hired and paid 26 July 1882
Col. Throckm. Capt. Bailey } Inf. Line Admitted Private 2 years
Humphrey Sander Esq., Collins New York

State of New York } Erie County }
On this 4th Day of October 1839 personally appeared before me Jonathan Hoyt a Judge of the County aforesaid Margaret Gilbert a resident of the Town of Collins in the County of Erie Aged Twenty four years who being first duly sworn according to Law, both on her oaths make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 in 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows that she is the widow of Amos Gilbert who was a private soldier of the Revolutionary Army and also a revolutionary pensioner previous to his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Amos Gilbert in the month of October and on the 19th of the day of that month in the year 1785 or 1786, that her husband the said Amos Gilbert died on the 26th day of July 1832 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January then then she received any money from the government at the time above stated and that she has never since been married.
Subscribed & sworn before me this 4th day of Oct. 1839.
Margaret H. Gilbert mark
Jonathan Hoyt a Judge of Erie Co. Courts
I certify that I am of the opinion that the above named Margaret Gilbert cannot attend Court from bodily infirmity.
Oct. 4: 1839.
Jonathan Hoyt a Judge of Erie Co. Courts

State of New York, County of Erie, ss.
I, Cyrus H. Anderson, Clerk of the County of Erie, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County, Do hereby Certify, that Jonathan Hoyt Esq — whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment,
Judge of Erie County Court
in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and authorised to take the same. And, further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such
Judge
and verily believe that the signature to the said
Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 9th day of October A. D. 1837.
C. H. Anderson Clerk. By R. W. Radford Dep. Clk.
Paid.

January 25, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXX
The American Historical Society, Inc., 80-90 Eighth Avenue New York City
Amos Gilbert, H. 16271 Samuel Campbell, R. 1643
Attention of M. M. Lewis
BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Amos Gilbert, William, James, and Samuel Campbell.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of a William or James Campbell (under any spelling of surname) as described by you.
The records of Amos Gilbert and Samuel Campbell were found and are furnished herewith as obtained from claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours
William Campbell — b. in Conn. Mar. 1, 1776 enl. at Sheffield, or Mt. Washington, Mass. A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator pvt in Capt. Jos. Pools Co. died in North Berwick, Jan. 14, 1798 James Campbell — b. in Voluntown, Conn. Feb. 25, 1752 Capt. in Col. Jos. Fellows' Berkshires Co Mass reg.